A List Of Firsts

It seems that we have fallen behind on many projects over the last few weeks. I’m blaming the mud that we are slogging through every day, but in reality it has been a hectic time with me being away from the farm for REALOregon (along with some homework), and then Mike leaving right after I got home for his time away. Needless to say, we are frantically trying to catch up even we have all been home for a full two weeks now.

The driveway that I was hoping to get re-rocked before winter did not happen and has become a downright embarrassment. Not only do visitors have to dodge muddy puddles but I’m having trouble keeping the mud out of the garage as we transfer vehicles and firewood pallets in and out on a daily basis.

The five-cord backup load of dry firewood in the farm truck has been wiped out with the bundling we have been doing. We have quite a bit of seasoned wood across the river but it is all still in log form. It needs to be sawed, split and stacked into cribs so we can move it, a half-cord at a time into the garage where fans and dehumidifiers complete the drying process. Once dry we can move it out to the barn to finish the bundling and bring it back to the garage to be loaded for shipment.

The last batch of calves that need to be weaned have their green weaner clip installed and they will need to be moved over to my show barn in a few more days so we get them away from their mothers. The pen in the barn needs to be de-mucked before we bring those calves over the river.

There is a bull buyer coming on Wednesday to pick up their purchased critter. If we don’t get some colder, drier weather to firm up the pasture, that may be a tractor/trailer/swapping in the driveway kind of day.

Tuesday will be firewood delivery day, its a good thing I have the garage loaded with enough supply of bundles to fill the truck for this week.

And it looks like the next round of calves will be popping out any day now, we have a couple cows that look about ready to deliver. We should be putting #94 and Pressure out into the nursery field so they are with the other cows with newborns before they sneak off to have their offspring.

The elk that was harvested will need to be cut up, packaged and frozen. Which reminds me, the freezer needs  attention before that happens.

We have a lead on someone who may want to help eradicate or at least diminish the coyote overflow we have around here. If we can thin their population a bit, I would not worry so much about our newborn calves.

I am gearing up for next week away from the farm with the REALOregon class as we make our way to the State Capitol for immersion in the legislation during the Short Session.

I’m sure this list isn’t complete, maybe I should print out a spreadsheet to keep the farm on track during this busy week…

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